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Who are the Real Brownshirts?

Too_Many_Tools and his two mommies.



http://www.americanvision.org/articl...1effZA6an9P5qC

by Gary DeMar
Congressman Brian Baird, a Democrat from Vancouver, Washington, told the
Columbian, a newspaper serving Clark County: "What we're seeing right now
is close to Brown Shirt tactics. . . . I mean that very seriously." On
Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show, Baird went even further by claiming that town
hall rhetoric was "eerily reminiscent of the kind of things that led
Timothy McVeigh to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma." Congressman
Baird should take a gander at this exchange between one of his fellow
Democrat colleagues and a medical doctor who lives in Rep. David Scott's
district in Georgia and tell us who the brownshirt is. (This report is the
way journalism should be done. Bravo to "11 Alive News" in Atlanta.) Nancy
Pelosi stepped in it, although the media are ignoring it, when she claimed
that attendees were "carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town
meeting on healthcare."

Who were the brownshirts? They served as a paramilitary organization of
the Nazi Party. They got the name "brownshirts" because of the color of
their uniforms and the fact that they showed up en masse to intimidate
audiences at meetings where Nazi leaders were speaking. As we're beginning
to see, the people turning up at these town hall meetings to confront
their elected officials on the rapid passage of a healthcare bill they
have not read are not an organized mob, contrary to the claims of
Democrats. They are regular citizens who want their questions answered.
It's obvious that those hosting the meetings are ignorant on the facts of
the 1017-page bill (H.R. 3200). That's why people are angry and
frustrated. And it's not just against Democrats.

If there is an apropos designation of brownshirts, it's union members who
have invested heavily in the Obama administration and have a lot to gain
by the passage of a comprehensive healthcare bill. They show up at these
meetings wearing shirts identifying themselves as union members. There are
reports that they have used force to keep people out of meetings. One man
claims to have been beaten up by someone wearing a shirt that identified
him as a union member. The union itself has sent out a clarion call to its
members to make their presence felt at these town hall meetings. Here's a
portion of an article from "The Huffington Post" website that describes
what the unions have in store for future meetings. These are the tactics
of brownshirts:

The nation's largest federation of labor organizations has promised to
directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town
halls during the August recess. In a memo sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO
President John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the union
conglomerate would step up recess activities on health care reform and
other topics pertinent to the labor community. . . . The AFL-CIO is
planning to target 50 "high priority districts," in addition to organizing
telephone town hall gatherings.

At a St Louis town hall meeting some in attendance were wearing t-shirts
bearing the logo of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU),
which is a member organization of Health Care for America Now!, a
left-wing coalition pushing for the passage of ObamaCare. SEIU was a large
supporter of Obama. In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, SEIU President
Andy Stern had this to say about last year's presidential election: "We
spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama - $60.7 million to be exact - and
we're proud of it."

So if there is any talk of brownshirts, the proper designation belongs
with those who are organized by the political Left. In this case, they
seem to be "blueshirts," members of the Service Employees International
Union (SEIU) who have gotten their marching orders from Deputy Chief of
Staff David Axelrod who called on supporters of comprehensive healthcare
legislation to "punch back twice as hard" at the growing grass roots
movement opposing the bill. Apparently, some took this literally. With a
name like Axelrod, is it any wonder?